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Regional Director - West

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Required skills

  • Multi-site leadership
  • Financial management
  • budget development
  • margin drivers
  • analytical background
  • customer service
  • communication skills
  • remote
  • background check

Nice to have

  • teaching K-12
  • Education administration
  • Education management
  • San Diego County

Role summary

AoPS Academy is seeking a remote Regional Director for its West region, responsible for driving growth and ensuring operational excellence across multiple campuses. This leadership role requires strategic direction, financial acumen, and strong people management skills to oversee campus leadership, educational standards, and financial performance. The ideal candidate will have multi-site leadership experience, a strong analytical background, and exceptional communication skills. The position involves frequent travel within the region and occasional travel outside, with some evening and weekend hours. This is a full-time position offering a competitive salary, bonus, and benefits.

Position Summary:

As a Regional Director (West) for AoPS Academy, you play a critical role in helping AoPS Academy grow and reach more students by ensuring regional growth and flourishing campuses. This leadership role demands a dynamic individual to provide strategic direction and oversight, ensuring adherence to educational, growth and performance standards while fostering a culture of accountability. Effective communication and collaboration is paramount, requiring the ability to report information both up and down the organizational chain and to problem solve closely and successfully with leaders and colleagues across campuses, regions and departments.

Location: This is a remote position. Candidates must be based in one of the following locations, with San Diego County strongly preferred:

  • Location 1: Based in Southern California (San Diego County / Los Angeles County / Orange County)
  • Location 2: Based in Greater Seattle Area

    • This position requires frequent travel within the assigned region and occasional travel outside the area, as well as some evening and weekend hours.

    The Regional Director Will:

  • Provide strategic direction and operational oversight for all AoPS Academy campuses within the assigned region, upholding a high operational bar across all.
  • Train to and uphold AoPS educational mission and standards. Ensure consistent quality of educational services by monitoring program quality and supporting campus teams in maintaining academic rigor and student engagement.
  • Establish regional performance standards and growth objectives with HQ teams and campus leaders. Analyze performance data, implement improvements, and hold campuses accountable to metrics. Provide KPI updates to the National Operations Director and Academy leadership.
  • Perform monthly financial reviews with campus and HQ leadership. Train and support campus leaders in making financially sound business decisions and hold them accountable to financial margins.
  • Hire, develop, and manage campus leadership teams. Supervise campus hiring efforts for all positions and lead programs that foster professional development, cross-campus mentorship, and knowledge sharing.
  • Lead projects defining staffing levels, roles, promotion structures, and compensation in collaboration with Talent Strategy and Academy leadership.
  • Act as a strategic partner to Expansion efforts by successfully launching new campuses, providing market insights, and partnering on market research and site identification.
  • Communicate and collaborate across all levels of management and departments. Document and escalate regional feedback to HQ teams and contribute to improving operations, systems, and processes at both HQ and campus levels.
  • Facilitate resolution of escalated campus issues and complete other tasks as assigned.

    • The ideal candidate has all of the following required qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree is required, with advanced degree preferred
  • Experience teaching K-12 or in Education administration or management preferred
  • Multi-site leadership and management experience
  • Strong financial management skills, including experience with budget development and management, as well as an understanding of margin drivers
  • Business or other analytical background to support monitoring of data and budgets
  • Exceptional customer service and communication skills

    • Why Join AoPS:

    This is a remote full-time position. Here are some things you can look forward to:

  • Salary: Range for this position is 120k-150k.
  • Impact/Growth Opp: The opportunity to develop campuses, mentor leadership teams, and contribute to our strategic vision of creating the next generation of problem solvers
  • Culture: Work and collaborate with an organization filled with builders and life-long learners who strive to discover, inspire, and train the great problem solvers of the next generation
  • Flexibility: Casual remote work environment
  • Benefits: Multiple options for Medical, Dental and Vision plans
  • Future Planning: 401K with company match
  • Quality of Life: PTO plan and supportive leadership that gives you the work-life balance you deserve
  • Ease of Transition: Relocation bonus

    • Background Check:

    Please note that employment is contingent on the successful completion of a background check.

    Work Authorization:

    Please note that in order to be considered for this position you must be legally authorized to work in the US. We are unable to offer sponsorship, including STEM-OPT and H-1B.

    About AoPS:

    Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) is on a mission to discover, inspire, and train the great problem solvers of the next generation. Since 2003, we have trained hundreds of thousands of the country’s top students, including nearly all the members of the US International Math Olympiad team, through our online school, in-person academies, textbooks, and online learning systems. While our primary focus has been math for most of our history, through the years we have expanded our unique problem solving curriculum into more subjects, such as language arts, science, and computer science.

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